Some Md. owners want right to dry laundry outside

GAITHERSBURG (AP) - "Jill" is not her real name. She wants to remain anonymous.

For years, Jill has been violating the rules of the Montgomery Village Association.

She hangs laundry to dry on a clothesline in her backyard. The yard's tall fence helps in her scofflaw laundry activity.

"Some of the other neighborhoods are allowed to hang out their laundry at certain times of the day, but where I live it's not allowed at all," she said. It's important, "Jill" emphasized, "for environmental reasons and because of the soaring cost of energy."

"I'm not the only...